Abstract Discussions of storytelling and narrative have encompassed abstraction in different ways including master narratives ( Bamberg, 1997 ) storylines Harré & van Lagenhove, 1998 ). These discussions, however, often viewed as a binary distinction, rather than spectrum where speakers move between levels when recounting experiences. This article argues for nuanced approach to that conside...

Next generation networks will include a diversity of wireless technologies for the network access. In the DAIDALOS project, an architecture that provides seamless QoS support, mobility, security and multicast, among other features, is being designed for such a heterogeneous wireless environment. This paper focuses on the wireless QoS part of this architecture: it is a modular architecture consi...

Multi-valued networks provide a simple yet expressive qualitative state based modelling approach for biological systems. In this paper we develop an abstraction theory for asynchronous multi-valued network models that allows the state space of a model to be reduced while preserving key properties of the model. The abstraction theory therefore provides a mechanism for coping with the state space...

ABSTRACTION, EXTENSION AND STRUCTURAL AUDITING WITH THE UMLS SEMANTIC NETWORKION, EXTENSION AND STRUCTURAL AUDITING WITH THE UMLS SEMANTIC NETWORK

Concurrent programs are traditionally described in terms of processes, an abstraction that hides the identity of the processor doing the actual execution. This hiding allows processes to be implemented by time-multiplexing one or more identical processors, making the process abstraction well suited for concurrent programs--like operating systems and scientific codestha t will be executed on uni...

Embedded system debuggers deal with several layers of target system abstraction, including circuit, machine code, assembly code, procedural code and extension code layers. The Luxdbg debugger contains an explicit API for each of these layers, providing opportunities for networked distribution at any of them. Having evolved in an environment of assembly code debugging for small-footprint signal ...

Some applications of simulation require that the model state he advanced in simulation time faster than the wall-clock time advances as the simulation executes. This faster rhan real-rime requirement is crucial, for instance, when a simulation is used as part of a real-time control system, working through the consequences of contemplated control actions, in order to identify feasible (or even o...